[All Platforms] Option to have a true shuffle

[jonathanleyerle]

So I’ve been noticing more and more recently that Spotify’s default shuffle feature doesn’t fully shuffle your songs. It does some sort of grouping to try to get similar songs together based off of what I’m sure is dozens of factors. Every time I shuffle a playlist (the one I noticed this with the most is ~100 songs and 6 hours of mostly full albums) it will group the songs mostly or completely together by album/artist, and given the number of times I’ve re-shuffled and checked the order there’s no way it’s just a coincidence. They also generally seem to be in the same order as well. If I hit shuffle play on a playlist it’ll generally put the same artists at the beginning every time.

With larger playlists of albums I am really not a fan of this shuffling method. If I have 6 hours of music on a playlist I will hardly ever have 6 hours to actually listen through the whole thing, but when I do listen to it I would like to hear all of the music on it equally, and not just the artist or two your algorithm likes to shuffle to first.

Anyways, I’m a reasonable man, all I’m asking for is an option to have a true shuffle (take all songs in the list, put them in a random order, and once they’re all played reshuffle them and play them again). Make it premium only if you want. I don’t think you should scrap the current shuffle algorithm because it sucks. Looking at some of the suggestions on here it seems like some people lobbied hard to have it that way. Just add an option for a true shuffle for those of us that don’t care about potentially getting the same song twice in a row.

[rozeboosje]

I think what @nomad71 is looking for is slightly different. I think most providers have curated playlists for individual artists so you can search for an artist and then start playing more or less random songs by that artist. From reading their request though it sounds more like they might like a handful of artists and they're looking for something that lets them listen to random songs out of ALL those songs by ALL those artists. I have never heard of any provider offering that specific functionality?

[Mookpsu]

nomad71 I use Live One (FKA Slacker Radio) for what I think you are
describing. They have their own curated stations but you can also create
your own custom stations where you pick and choose what artists you want to
be in it. It also allows you to fine tune your station. Right now I'm
listening to my custom 80's/90's alternative station and it's only playing
songs by the artists I've added to the station. They are basically a
Pandora clone but better in my opinion. When I want to make a
custom playlist of specific songs or listen to an individual album start to
finish I use Amazon Music. Live One allows you to do this with their
"Premium" service but I only have the "plus" membership. And with Amazon
Music When I listen to one of my custom playlists in shuffle mode it will
play the entire thing with NO REPEATED SONGS. It's been well over a year
since I dropped Spotify and I have no regrets or no regerts for all the
Snickers fans out there. Hope that helps

[Casimus]

I’m changing YouTube 

[rednblu]

Snickers-- Yes!

[nomad71]

Thank you so much. I will definitely check that out. Sounds exactly what I’m looking for. I’m really surprised this is not a standard feature of all streaming services.

[Undeterred]

is there anybody... out there?

[rozeboosje]

Only us rubberneckers

[oddindeed]

STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Balkankallj]

FIX SPOTIFY'S SHUFFLE. How can you even call it a shuffle. Even though I've deleted my cache and restartet the app many times, when I go to my playlist and select shuffle, not only one or two of the same songs get played, BUT IT'S THE SAME 6-7 SONGS IN THE SAME ORDER EACH TIME. It is mathematically impossible! I have three hours of different songs I want to hear. PLEASE make it more random, I know A LOT of people feel the same way. It's so frustrating!!

[lwolbach08]

I have had this problem every day for the past year, across devices, and especially with the new DJ feature. Shuffle a playlist or start a new DJ session on a new device and you will get exactly the same "shuffled" music in the exact same order. Its like the device is improperly holding onto cached information from previous sessions. This is day one stuff for a music streaming platform...